Logo Magazine, February 2004
If this is rock, it is an ambassador for the genre. If pop, it is how pop ought to be
Irresistible punky surf-pop
Unpeeled, February 2004
Drowned In Sound
Album Description
Includes the singles "Voodoo", "Alien Hive Theme" and "Head", as well as a stunning version of "These Boots Are Made For Walking"
About the Artist
LONDON -- "It’s a wild ride, hang in there," read one of Brand Violet’s first reviews, and how prophetic that statement proved to be.
First signed to Stevo Pearce’s Some Bizarre label (Soft Cell, Depeche Mode, Cabaret Voltaire) on the strength of their home-recorded first demo. Clichéd self-destructive phase. Ex-Arista/Rhythm King head Martin Heath proposes a new singer (ex-Zomba, Jive, Stock-Aitkin-Waterman) for the band to work with on his new label. Kept the singer. Not the label. Picked up by independent Riverside Records. First two singles produced by P.J. Harvey’s engineer. A couple songs licensed to North American TV shows. Danelectro gives them free gear, then promptly stops making it. Songs chart in Top 5 online via Garageband, MP3.com, Vitaminic. "Alien Hive Theme" video is the final clip before the Stereophonics take the stage on their current tour. Guitarist Brian James (The Damned, Lords of the New Church) expresses interest in producing the next release.
References to Pulp Fiction, The Pixies, Blondie, The Cramps and the B-52s roll in. Strange bedfellows perhaps, but Brand Violet sound like nothing else in the UK, maybe the world.
Doesn't happen does it? It does now. Tunes you'd quite happily admit to liking. It's pop, but it's not. It's rock without the cock."
Maybe that explains their ‘cult’ status in London, UK. Formed Halloween Night 1999.
They are:
Sally-Anne Marsh - vocals 'Baby' Igor - guitar Henderson K. Shatner - bass ‘Bones' Jones - drums
